> The goal of the tag is to reduce non-essential motion, but gifs may have essential information on a frame other than the first. This is why I said I wasn't t

> The goal of the tag is to reduce non-essential motion, but gifs may have essential information on a frame other than the first. This is why I said I wasn't taking a stand on whether the <img> tag should apply this logic natively. It really depends on the content and context of the image. Not doing it natively means most sites won't bother to implement the prefers-reduced-motion, but doing it natively means images with meaningful content buried in the animation would effectively be broken.